Lamp for motor road vehicles



May19,-1925. v 1,538,301

' W. F. M. ROSE LAMP FOR MOTOR ROA D VEHICLES Filed July 2.2, 1924 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 W n rm May 19, 1925. 1,538,301

w. F. M. ROSE LAMP FOR MOTOR ROAD VEHICLES Filed July 22, '1924 Fig.4.

2 Sheets- Sheet 2 Y Patented May 19, 1925.

FRANCIS MEEKAN ROSE, OF HAMMERSMEITH, LONDONQENGLLND.

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Application filed July 22, 1924. Serial No. 727,568.

To all whom it may concern.-

. .Be it known that I, WILLIAM FRANCIS MEEKAN Rosa, a subject of the King of Great Britain and Ireland, residin at 19,- Sta-mford Brook Mansions, Goldhaw Road, Hammersmith, in the administrative county of London, England, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Lamps for M0 tor Road Vehicles, of which the following is a full and complete specification.

This invention relates to lamps for motor road vehicles and consists of a combined body adapted to receive an electric bulb and flexible arm for supporting said body and it has for its object to sim lify and thereby cheapen production. A urther object is to produce a complete unit ready for attachment, and a still further object is a construction which will protect not only the body of the lamp but also the electric bulb from damagethrou'gh collision. v

I attain these ends by constructing the body of the =1amp and the supportin bracket by which it is mounted on the ve icle of rubber or like material, the body part being of such. a nature as will give it the desired stifl'ness to be indeformab e and thereby able w'thstand telescopingor collapsing if it shoul be accidentally struck or come into contact with an obstruction, and the bracket being of such a nature as will ive it the necessary fl exi bilit to permit t e lamp to give way under eit er of the aforesaid iconitions.

In the accom anying drawings which showa 'rearor tai light embodying this invention:- g W Figures 1, 2, and 3 are views in front elevation, sideielevation and plan respectively showing one form of construction, and Figures 4, 5, and 6 are views in section showing alternative forms of construction. Throughout the views similar parts are marked with like numerals of reference.

Both the body [and 2 are made ofrubber former being made of sufiicient stiffness to be ,indeformable and the latter being of" such" a construction that while it has the neces-.

sary stiffness in the vertical plane --to sup port the weigliit of the lamp it has the necessary flexibl ty in thehorizontal plane-to form a spring or elastic arm.

The body 1 which, is of cylindrical form has a socket 2 at one end adapted to receive the holder 3 for theelectric bulb4 and has glass can be when it is ma e material sti the supporting arm or like. material the at the other end a glazed windou 5 which forms the rear light. When it is re quired to have side lights as well as a rear light glazed windows 6' &11d 7 are formed in the opposite sides of the body. When such side windows are provided the body 1 can be made of thesame- I quality of rubber as the arm 8 as the incision of pieces of mica for the windows gives the body the necessary stiffness to make it indeformable. of the apertures forming the 'ndows are grooves 9 into vlwl iighbthe pieclef of mica or ace y suita sprin the rubber body K gmg The body 1 and the arm 8 are either moulded in one piece as shown in Figures- 1, 2, and 3 or in two pieces which are subsequently assembled as shown in Figure 4,

in which'c'onstruction the socket 2 is sprung J 4 into an'apertured ring 10 formed in the arm In the" edge or edges 8 and is securely gripped in same by the 1 expansion of the. socket 2 by the insertion of the bulb holder 3.

Alternativel to stiffening the body '1 of soft rubber by the pieces of mica or glass employed for the side windows, such a body ma use of a rigid frame sue eithertake the form of a insertedin the body after shown in Figure 5, or of a metal frame embodied in the wall of the body before vulas 11 which may I canization "as shown in Figure 6.

- Thearm 8 is provided with a suitable be stiffened by the cylinder of mica I vulcanization as number offholesfor the bolts or screws employed to fix same on the body or undercarriage of the vehicle. What I claim is 1.v An electric lamp for vehicles comprising a bod terial sti a supporting arm enou part made of rubber or likefmamadeof rubber or like gh to stand u and support the body of the; lamp under normal conditions but flexible enough to be bent enough to be indeformable, and '7 out of shape underexternal pressure and resilient enough'to cause the body part to re-- sume its original position when such external gressure is removed, said body part being" tted with a transparent element and. so'

shaged as to enclose and house the electric bul.

2. An electric lamp.for-vehicles comprise in a body part made of rubber or like materia stifi-enoughto be indeformable and a supporting arm integral therewith which is made of asimilar material stiff enough to stand up and support the body of the lamp under normal conditions and flexible and resilient enough to bend under external pressure and to restore the body part to its original position when such external pressure is removed, said body part being fitted with a window element and so shaped as to enclose and house the electric bulb.

3. In combination, a body for an electric lamp and a supporting arm for said body both made of rubber the body of a hard nature such as vulcanite so that it is indeformable and the arm being of a soft narubber such as vulcanite so that it is inde formable.

5. A combined electric lamp holder and supporting bracket for motor road vehicles, comprising an open-ended cylindrical indeformable body in one end of which is a bulb holder with terminals for the lead and in the other end of which is a glazed window, and an integral flexible rubber arm adaptedto support said body.

6. A combined electric lamp holder and supporting bracket for motor road vehicles, comprising an open-ended cylindrical body in one end of which is a bulb holder with terminals for the lead and in the other end of which is a glazed window, and a supporting arm formed integral with said body said arm being made of soft rubber and so constructed andarranged as to be flexible in the horizontal plane and said body being made of hard rubber so as to be indeformable.

7. A combined electric lamp holder and supporting bracket comprising an open-ended cylindrical body one end of which is adapted to receive a holder for an electric bulb and the other end of which is adapted to form a rear window said body also having apertures forming side windows, and a supporting arm of greater depth than thickness, said body and said arm being both made of rubber and moulded so as to be integral, the rubber of said body being hard and inelastic so as to make it indeformable and the rubber (if said arm being soft so as to make it flexi 1e. i

WILLIAM FRANCIS MEEKAN ROSE. 

